Author: Greta Rabensteiner

“Hi, I’m Charli XCX, and that’s what’s inside my bag.” I’ve always been drawn to handbags and find them quite interesting—not just as fashion accessories, but as objects rich with personal and cultural meaning. For this unit, I decided to explore them more deeply, investigating how they function as containers that both reveal and conceal… Continue reading Projection 1 – In process book

Since I wanted to do something more personal, I decided to focus on South Tyrol, my home region, and its cultural diversity. South Tyrol has a population of nearly 470,000, where around two-thirds speak German as their mother tongue, just over a quarter speak Italian as their first language, and about 20,000 people speak Ladin,… Continue reading Positions through triangulating (2.1)

This is a series of experimental posters I created using the scanner to capture small, often-overlooked objects from our everyday lives. These items, though small, can play a meaningful role in shaping our identities. The scanner, typically used to capture intricate details and textures, felt perfect for this iteration, as it reflects my journey of… Continue reading Positions through triangulating (1.3)

How can the manipulation of objects through a scanner be used as a typographic and storytelling tool to create new visual hierarchies and meanings in graphic design?  The way objects are scanned—through distortion, movement, layering, or glitching—creates a dynamic process where hierarchy and storytelling are redefined. The viewer is invited to reinterpret what they see,… Continue reading Positions through triangulating (1.2)

At the beginning of this brief I decided to use the scanner as a tool to continue my exploration about digital and physical: a tool that bridges physical and digital realms, allowing me to transform and reinterpret physical objects into merged, yet transformed, digital layers.  At this stage I wasn’t sure about the context yet,… Continue reading Positions through triangulating (1.1)

Following my cataloguing project, where I investigated the idea of a journey, a text, and its relationship to a landscape, I decided to continue this exploration, focusing on the idea of a journey. In my first week, I chose to document my journey to Edinburgh through 100 iterations. As my documenting tool, I chose google… Continue reading Positions through iterating – week one